Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall will also star in Universal and Working Title’s “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.”
Universal Pictures and Working Title have finally reunited the cast for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boythe fourth installment of the British-based romantic comedy series.
Renee Zellweger will return as the lovable but agitated Jones, as will Hugh Grant like the scoundrel Daniel Cleaver. Emma Thompsonwhich appeared in the 2016 entry, Bridget Jones’s Babyis also back, while newcomers include Chiwetel Ejiofor and the promising Leo Woodallbest known for his work on season 2 of White Lotus.
Michael Morriswho directed the drama Andrea Riseborough To Lesliewill be sitting in the director’s chair when cameras roll on the film, which adapts the best-selling 2013 novel by the creator of Jones, Helen Fielding. Fielding also wrote the script.
What Bridget Jones movie is about
Readers and audiences have seen Jones have love triangles, find romance, and even have a baby, but in the novel Mad About a Boythe woman found new levels of shame as tweets and texts were added to her diary as forms of expression. Jones is now navigating life, work, family, and love as a 51-year-old single mother and widow, for starters (I know, right?). And of course, there’s hot sex with a 30-year-old man.
Zellweger first played Jones in the 2001 adaptation, which not only turned out to be a huge hit, but earned the actress an Oscar nomination for best actress. Grant and Colin Firth They also starred in the film, and the trio returned for the 2004 sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. Grant did not participate in Bridget Jones’s Baby 2016, although Zellweger and Firth returned.
The trio of films has grossed more than $760 million at the global box office.
Source: Ambito
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